Today my baby is 9 days old and since he has been born, let me tell ya....IT'S BEEN TOUGH!!!!! My 2 year old has been having a HARD time adjusting! A couple days after I had the baby my husband was sick in bed for 4 days and yesterday was his first day up. With that being said, the 2 and 3 year old haven't been supervised as well as they usually are and OH BOY, are they taking ADVANTAGE!!!!! Most of it is instigated by 2 yr old lil Jesse and 3 yr old Dustin joins in. Jesse has been throwing eggs down the laundry shoot and yesterday I found out that the washer lid was opened so all the eggs cracked inside the washer. He dumped a half big bottle of liquid laundry soap inside the dryer. He pooped in the garden, peed on the baby's new bouncy, while lil Dustin peed on an empty garbage bag the was next to the bouncy. They have been throwing and breaking glass on the back patio, eating and throwing outside in the water my organic Daves killer sprouted wheat bread. Dumped out outside with glass, my organic raisins, clogging up the toilet with...well who knows what, squirted two new things of tooth past in the sink and toilet (now we are out). Jesse dumped out my $10. bottle of golden seal, my bottle of citricital soap, dumped the epson salt .....and the list goes on. Did I mention we are on a tight budget? I think it would have been cheaper and more pleasant to hire help! We have tried spankings and THEY JUST DON'T WORK for Jesse James, and not really for Dustin. Time out works better for Dustin and we really haven't found anything that works for Jesse.

Jesse is having a VERY hard time adjusting to the new baby! He usually sleeps through the night but since the baby has been born, baby sleeps through the night but Jesse wakes up screaming some night around midnight. He throws such a bad fit that he's kinda foaming at the mouth and girgling and gnarling and throwing his head back. Dustin can half way console him just for a minute but when he is throwing these fits, he will have nothing to do with me. He loves me during the day, but not when he wakes up throwing a fit. I have been trying really hard not to be to condescending when I catch him getting into things. I have been trying really hard to praise him for things and talk to him extra gently lately as he is feeling like the baby came and took his place, and well, I guess he did. His fits have lessened and I just pray that lil Jesse James gets over this soon and starts to adjust well to his new lil brother.